Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my twelve-year-old life Sophie Franz author of The Artist

author of The Artist

as if there are ghosts hovering on the periphery of Goblet’s relationships

Chelsea Hodson

Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous

Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my twelve-year-old life Sophie Franz author of The ArtistBy Riad Sattouf. Published by Pushkin Press. Softcover, 56 pages, Colour, 2021. Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friends daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and then he works it up into a comic strip. This book consists of 52 of those strips, telling between them the story of a year in the life of this sharp, spirited and hilarious child. The result